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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$26.95 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
From groundbreaking writer and thinker, Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future. Why do some societies flourish, while others founder? What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of ...Show more
Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$32.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes an epic, visionary new book on the mysterious collapse of past civilizations - and what this means for our future."I've set myself the modest task of trying to explain the broad pattern of human history, on all the continents, for the last 13,00 ...Show more
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond
$27.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' DAILY MAIL 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' OBSERVER From the ghostly stone heads of Easter Island to crumbling Mayan cities hidden deep in the jungle, the mysterious ruins of lost worlds and vanished civilizations continue to haunt us. How could ...Show more
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Last Tree on Easter Island by Jared Diamond
$9.99 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilization destroyed itself by exploiting its own natural resources - and why we must heed this warning.
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal by Jared M. Diamond
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction
Pulitzer Prize winning Jared Diamond's first foray into illustrated young adult nonfiction
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn From Traditional Societies by Jared Diamond
$29.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with another epic - and groundbreaking - journey into our rapidly receding past. In The Wor ...Show more
The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? by Jared Diamond
$22.99 AUD
Category: Science | Reading Level: near fine
The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons that traditional societies offer us today. Over the past 500 years, the West achieved global dominance, but do Westerners necessarily have better ideas about how to raise children, care for the elderly, or s ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$24.99 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel, and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond’s analysis of the ways in ...Show more
Upheaval - How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change by Jared Diamond
$35.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: good-very good
In his landmark international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now in the third book in this monumental trilogy, he reveals how successful nations recover from crisis. Diamond shows us how seven countr ...Show more
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